---
name: "Caroline Goddard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/caroline-goddard"
fi1m_id: "caroline-goddard"
imdb_id: "nm1049335"
tmdb_id: 1351221
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-25T04:07:38.810606+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Caroline Goddard

## Identity

Caroline Goddard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/caroline-goddard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** caroline-goddard
- **IMDb ID:** nm1049335
- **TMDB ID:** 1351221
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1049335/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351221

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Also known as:** Caroline Williams, Caroline Hope Williams
- **Frequently works with:** [Abraham Higginbotham](https://film.one/person/abraham-higginbotham.md), [Bryan Cranston](https://film.one/person/bryan-cranston.md), [Chuck Tatham](https://film.one/person/chuck-tatham.md), [Claire Scanlon](https://film.one/person/claire-scanlon.md), [Danny Leiner](https://film.one/person/danny-leiner.md), [Jeff Melman](https://film.one/person/jeff-melman.md), [Joe Lawson](https://film.one/person/joe-lawson.md), [Ken Whittingham](https://film.one/person/ken-whittingham.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (3), 2010s 91 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 70 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Animation 1, Drama 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1049335/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351221

## Coming up

- *The Cat in the Hat* (2026-11-04), Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cat-in-the-hat.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*BoJack Horseman*](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md) (91), [*Arrested Development*](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md) (87)
- **Disney+:** [*Modern Family*](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md) (77)
- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Caroline Goddard, also credited as Caroline Williams and Caroline Hope Williams, is an American television writer and producer. She has written episodes of *Arrested Development* (2003), *The Office* (2005), *Modern Family* (2009), *BoJack Horseman* (2014) and *Maniac* (2018).

She has held producing roles including supervising producer on *Arrested Development*, consulting producer on *Modern Family* and *BoJack Horseman*, and co-executive producer on *Maniac* and *Miss Guided* (2008), which she co-created. Goddard directed the short film *Lovely* (2018) and episodes of *The Browns*.

She was a staff writer on *The Office* and received a Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series for her work on *Modern Family*. Goddard has been married to filmmaker Drew Goddard since 2009.

*Sources: imdb.com, dramaticarts.usc.edu.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *BoJack Horseman* (2014), Fi1m 91, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md)
- *Modern Family* (2009), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *Arrested Development* (2003), Fi1m 87, Writer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Cat in the Hat* (2026), Story — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cat-in-the-hat.md)
- *The Browns* (2020), series, Director, Consulting Producer
- *Maniac* (2018), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Another Period* (2015), series, Consulting Producer
- *BoJack Horseman* (2014), series, as (voice) · Consulting Producer, Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md)
- *Modern Family* (2009), series, Consulting Producer, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *Miss Guided* (2008), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Office* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, Writer, Supervising Producer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)
- *Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde* (2003), as Delta Nu Sister
- *The Greater Good*, Writer

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